BASF to build specialty amines plant at Ludwigshafen

12:07 PM MDT | April 16, 2014 | Deepti Ramesh

BASF says it is building a new, world-scale plant to produce specialty amines at Ludwigshafen. The facility, which will have a production capacity of 12,000 m.t./year, is expected to start production at the end of 2015. The product range of this flexible, multiproduct plant comprises 15 amines for different applications. The major applications are in the construction, automotive, crop protection, and pharmaceutical industries, BASF says. This news follows BASF’s announcement last month that it will build a world-scale specialty amines plant at the...